In plain words
Every day, very early in the morning, she would go with her women disciples to the Gaṅgā, bathe and come back. On the way they went, a sannyāsī lived under a tree. He had renounced every tie. People called him a ‘knower of Brahman’. But Ubhayabhāratī noticed a small fault in him. Afraid that someone might steal the gourd he used for drinking water, he lay down with it placed under his head. Seeing that, she said, loud enough for him to hear, “Ah! This man is a knower of Brahman, but there is one small flaw in him.” When her disciples asked, “What is that flaw, mother?” she said, “Though he has renounced every tie, he has put his water gourd under his head for fear that someone might carry it off.” Her words made him angry. As they were coming back after bathing in the Gaṅgā, he picked up that gourd and flung it at her feet. Then Ubhayabhāratī: “Alas, I thought there was just one fault in this man. But in truth there are two faults,” she said. What were those two faults? Hiding away his water gourd for fear that someone might carry it off was attachment. Picking it up and flinging it away in anger because Ubhayabhāratī had spoken so was Ahaṅkāra. “One who does not give up attachment and Ahaṅkāra cannot be a knower of Brahman,” she taught.
Many women who were embodiments of Jñāna, like Ubhayabhāratī, have been born in Bhārata. But through the influence of the Kali age, women are not given their rightful place today. We must not neglect women, thinking, after all, they are women. Women are brave and deep, bearing every trouble, standing up to hardship and loss and pressing on ahead. In them Vijñāna, Prajñāna and Sujñāna are present in special measure. Many good qualities that do not show to the eye are in them. Ubhayabhāratī herself, who guarded the honour of the home, upheld the good name of ‘housewife’ and taught Dharma to the whole world, is a fine example of this.